Parse Server may crash when uploading file without extension

Description

Parse Server crashes when uploading a file without extension.

Recommendation

Update the parse-server package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): **>= 6.0.0, < 6.3.1

  >= 1.0.0, < 5.5.6**

• Patched version(s): **6.3.1

  5.5.6**

References

• GHSA-792q-q67h-w579
• CVE-2023-46119
• CWE-22
• CWE-23
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• parse-server crashes when receiving file download request with invalid byte range - CVE-2022-39313
• Parse Server vulnerable to remote code execution via MongoDB BSON parser through prototype pollution - CVE-2023-36475
• Parse Server Vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in File Upload via URI Format - CVE-2025-64430
• Phishing attack vulnerability by uploading malicious HTML file - CVE-2023-32689

Tags:

npm

parse-server